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Liberty, freedom to prosper and freedom to fail. Freedom thrives in times of peace and is whittled away during war. Prosperity thrives in times of peace.
For the record I have never smoked pot nor have a huge desire for it. If it was legalized I may use it occasionally but it would be a lot like tobacco where when I was eighteen I tried cigars, then got bored. Regarding other drugs, being that I am a prescriber of schedule II narcotics I have a better understanding of how drugs affect people than most folks on this board. I see te awful reprecussions every week of illegal and legal drugs. But if you want to bring every libertarian debate back to drugs assuming that we all our potheads, then I realize that logic and liberty are ideas that you fail to embrace.

Mud, what you write is going right over their heads. This thread is a prime example of why the Repub Party has a dim futue!

Libertarinism, Freedom with Responsibility!

Last edited by Franco; 08-18-2013 at 08:08 AM.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery. Calvin Coolidge

I may be willing to debate exactly when following conception we call it murder....but at some point it is murder ....and Franco your generation will have to live with the results of this ongoing assault to society and God!

I would love to debate you on this subject,,sounds like fun. Tough to do on a puter.

"That is a demographic that they(GOP) desperately need to do better with," he says. "That socially liberal, economically conservative, non-interventionist policy stance popular among libertarians is very appealing to younger, college-age people. ... Some of these people are disaffected Obama voters who have been turned off by the Obama administration's national security policies and foreign policies and interventionism."

"libertarian ideas are very deeply rooted in America. Skepticism about power and about government, individualism, the idea that we're all equal under the law, free enterprise, getting ahead in the world through your own hard work -- all of those ideas are very fundamentally American. Obviously, from a libertarian point of view, America nonetheless has done a whole lot of things, from slavery to Obamacare, that offend some number of those libertarian values, but the core libertarian attitude is still there"

"libertarian ideas are very deeply rooted in America. Skepticism about power and about government, individualism, the idea that we're all equal under the law, free enterprise, getting ahead in the world through your own hard work -- all of those ideas are very fundamentally American. Obviously, from a libertarian point of view, America nonetheless has done a whole lot of things, from slavery to Obamacare, that offend some number of those libertarian values, but the core libertarian attitude is still there"

Franco....the Republicans were here with ideas, long before the Libertarians even existed. Also, this article you referenced, actually hit my key point in the last paragraph "My guess is that Rand Paul will make a serious bid for the Republican nomination. If had to bet on Rand Paul versus the field, I'd take the field." The only thing Libertarians will do in the next two elections, is help Marxist Democrats continue to get elected.